devotional, such a remarkable gathering. It seemed to be composed of "all sorts and conditions of men."

As the church was neared the crowd became more dense, but a path was kept clear; the Rev. J. E. Swallow, of Horbury, who had been for a long period a Chaplain at Clewer, was responsible for the good arrangement of the procession. The Rev. A. Cowie, Rector of Clewer, began the service; the Lesson was read by the Rev. G. N. Nicholas, Vicar of Clewer St. Stephen. At the grave, the Ven. W. H. Hutchings conducted the service, saying the prayers of committal; and the Bishop of Oxford, at the close, gave the Blessing. Besides the Bishops of Oxford, Reading, and Zululand, and the Deans of Windsor, Lichfield, and Chichester, there was a great number of priests and of lay people, all anxious to show their loving regard for their pastor and lifelong friend, now borne to his last resting-place; amongst them many to whom he had ministered in his gentle fatherly way as far as memory could reach back.

His teaching, which he had the happiness, during the last years of his life, of knowing, was continued by his successors in the parish (Rev. Roland Errington and Rev. A. T. C. Cowie)—would not be forgotten by his flock, as well as his keen interest in all that concerned their well-being, both spiritual and bodily.

The resting-place had long been awaiting him by the side of his wife, in the beautiful churchyard at Clewer, and now those who visit his grave will see the space which had for thirty-two years remained vacant on the grave-stone, filled with the name of Thomas Thellusson Carter.

"Then wander back to life, and lean

On our frail love once more,

"Tis sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store."

In the Chapel of the Community at Clewer, on the north side of the altar, against the angle of the apse, there is an alabaster effigy of the Founder, fully vested, and of the size of life. The figure rests upon what is generally

described as an altar tomb, with the following inscription, in an abbreviated form, on the base :

"Orate pro animâ Thomæ Thellusson Carter domûs istius communitatisque Sancti Joannis Baptista Fundatoris qui in festo Sanctorum Simonis et Judæ MCMI anno sacerdotii LXIX ætatis XCIV in Christo obdormivit."

Over the figure there is a wooden canopy, and on the wall at the back the Crucifixion carved in a panel, with the words underneath :

"Caritas Xti urget nos."

On the north wall of the Sanctuary of the parish church of St. Andrew, on a slab of slate let into the wall, there is a small bronze figure reposing upon a kind of bier, protected by delicate pillars, supporting a canopy. Above this, on a separate bronze plate, but upon the same slate slab, are inscribed these words :

"In p. mem: Thomae T. Carter, qui olim hanc cancellam exornavit obdormivit in Christo xxviii. Oct: MCMI: et in agro vicino expectat Resurrectionem."

"MY DEAR

"I think you would like the following very touching incident for the Memoir.

She

"On Saturday last one of our servants was in Clewer churchyard tidying a grave belonging to her family. noticed a middle-aged, grey-headed working man, who came to her and asked to be shown the Warden's grave. She took him to it, and called his attention to the white flowers lying upon it. He stood bareheaded, and tears ran down his face. 'As is fitting,' he said, 'and as he would have wished.' After a few minutes' silence he begged to be directed to 'the house in which he lived.' The Rectory and St. John's Lodge were both indicated, but before he went on he entered the church where he had so long ministered,' and he added, 'This place should indeed be reverenced. If I had not been ill and laid by at the time, I should have been at his funeral.'

"We do not know who the man was, he seemed to have come with a 'coster excursion' from London."

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